I have a user who has lost their Linux support. They have asked me to add
samba to an existing install. I tried doing it according to Wiley
Publications "Red Hat Linux 9 Bible". It fails to install.



Looking at services, don't see smb listed. How do I add this in after the
fact?



Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Greg Smith wrote:
> I have a user who has lost their Linux support. They have asked me to add
> samba to an existing install. I tried doing it according to Wiley
> Publications "Red Hat Linux 9 Bible". It fails to install.
>
> Looking at services, don't see smb listed. How do I add this in after the
> fact?

Install and configure Samba


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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:56:03 +0100, Greg Smith <gjs@umn.edu> wrote:

> I have a user who has lost their Linux support. They have asked me to add
> samba to an existing install. I tried doing it according to Wiley
> Publications "Red Hat Linux 9 Bible". It fails to install.
>
>
>
> Looking at services, don't see smb listed. How do I add this in after the
> fact?

I don't have Red Hat Linux 9 Bible, so it is not clear to me what you did.

Is the rpm installed?

Download the latest rh9-compatible update of the samba rpms, and install them.
I recommend that you also install swat (it may be called samba-swat).
Then do "chkconfig --level 345 samba on", just in case. And "service smb start".
Then you can start configuring, using swat.

-Enrique

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:56:03 -0600 "Greg Smith" <gjs@umn.edu> wrote:

> I have a user who has lost their Linux support. They have asked me to add
[snip]


You already asked this yesterday.

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On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:52:48 +0100, "Enrique Perez-Terron"
<enrio@online.no> wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:56:03 +0100, Greg Smith <gjs@umn.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have a user who has lost their Linux support. They have asked me to add
<snip>
>Download the latest rh9-compatible update of the samba rpms, and install them.
>I recommend that you also install swat (it may be called samba-swat).
>Then do "chkconfig --level 345 samba on", just in case. And "service smb start".
>Then you can start configuring, using swat.
>
>-Enrique

i think it is "chkconfig --level 345 smb on" not referencing samba.
If the samba reference does work it will then be "service samba
start".
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"Benway" <no.email@here.matey> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:52:48 +0100, "Enrique Perez-Terron"
> <enrio@online.no> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:56:03 +0100, Greg Smith <gjs@umn.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a user who has lost their Linux support. They have asked me to
>>> add
> <snip>
>>Download the latest rh9-compatible update of the samba rpms, and install
>>them.
>>I recommend that you also install swat (it may be called samba-swat).
>>Then do "chkconfig --level 345 samba on", just in case. And "service smb
>>start".
>>Then you can start configuring, using swat.
>>
>>-Enrique
>
> i think it is "chkconfig --level 345 smb on" not referencing samba.
> If the samba reference does work it will then be "service samba
> start".

The "service" command is a RedHat shell script, found in /sbin.
Unfortunately, RedHat does not include /sbin or /usr/sbin in their default
user PATH: I tend to correct this in /etc/profile at the first opportunity,
but in a crunch I find that "/etc/init.d/smb restart" works well to restart
things, and "/sbin/chkconfig smb --add" works well to enable it for
rebooting if the init script has the proper chkconfig options. (Most do, a
few commercial init scripts do not.)